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> Meanwhile you had the Atari ST, Amiga, Sinclair QL on the low end

I don't know that you would call some of those (I'm familiar with the Amiga) as "low end" compared to the Mac. Same CPU, more memory (the Amiga could go up to 138MB, even then), more capacity floppy drives. 4096 color display at higher resolutions than the monochrome Mac. Better sound quality, 4 channel stereo versus monochrome.

Yeah, definitely not sure how the Amiga was low-end versus the Original Mac.



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